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28th September 2021, 09:54 AM #1Senior Member
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Tools you love the most (gift ideas for milestone birthday)
Heya,
I'm fast approaching a milestone birthday, and my wonderful friends, family, and loved ones are asking (via my wife) what I might want. This is a premium opportunity to acquire tools that wouldn't buy normally.
Have at it at - what would be on your list?
Since it's a milestone, I'm thinking 'keep forever' tools. Power tools are out. I'm a hybrid guy, and have the big stuff I need. I'm finding that I want more and better hand tools for finessing things. Especially for furniture joinery and also finer work, like little hardwood boxes, and maybe kumiko later.
Here's my starter list:
- Henry Eckert Low Angle Jack. You might have seen I grabbed a stanley #62 recently, but returned it because it wasn't quite right. The HE should be very, very right! Also a nice keepsake, since these are made not far from where I grew up in SA. I might even take a trip to do the half day sharpening workshop when borders open again.
- Medium shoulder plane. The Lie Nielsen looks grand.
- Medium router plane. Veritas?
- Bridge City Chopstick Master. It's frivolous and silly - perfect as a gift. As it turns good chopsticks are hard to buy, and comes a great mini block plane. So it's not all that silly, really.
- Fret saw. What's good?
- Paolini pocket rule.
- Nice winding sticks. I know... I can just use angle iron, levels, or some scrap. But it's nice to have nice things sometimes.
I quite like learning too. I want to do the Bern Chandley class one day. Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking and Victoria School of Woodcraft also have some nice options.
What are some tools things you've been given and have loved?
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28th September 2021, 10:55 AM #2Senior Member
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Gah, this probably should be over in the Hand Tools forum. With this other almost identical thread from The Spin Doctor!
Sorry about that!
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28th September 2021, 12:45 PM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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For Fret saw, the knew concepts ones are hard to beat. Really nice to use.
For shoulder plane, i just went with the Luban. For the amount of use it gets i couldn't justify going premium but it's still be well made.
Veritas router plane. Awesome, especially if you have a couple of different sized blades with it
LAJ. Never tried HE but loving my Veritas one. The build quality is excellent. Blade size is identical to their BU jointer and BU smoother so different angled blades can be swapped between them.
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28th September 2021, 01:52 PM #4Senior Member
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For Fret saw, the knew concepts ones are hard to beat. Really nice to use.
For shoulder plane, i just went with the Luban. For the amount of use it gets i couldn't justify going premium but it's still be well made.
Veritas router plane. Awesome, especially if you have a couple of different sized blades with it
LAJ. Never tried HE but loving my Veritas one. The build quality is excellent. Blade size is identical to their BU jointer and BU smoother so different angled blades can be swapped between them.
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28th September 2021, 02:23 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Hi RW. I find that my router plane (a record) is indispensable and once you get one you find many uses for it (including cleaning up tenon cheeks). I have long lusted after the Knew concepts coping saw.....one day
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28th September 2021, 02:57 PM #6Senior Member
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...once you get one you find many uses for it (including cleaning up tenon cheeks)
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28th September 2021, 03:52 PM #7
If you don't have a set of dovetail chisels, Blue Spruce are hard to beat.
They are made to order so there is a bit of a wait.
Tom.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
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28th September 2021, 09:36 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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Have a look at the Blue Spruce ultimate coping saw with fret blade adapter. It's luuuurvely. I don't even use my coping saw much and I still want one.
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28th September 2021, 09:45 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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I'd find a nice vintage set of chisels from England and import them. Not like later marples, etc, but older chisels that are well finished (earlier marples, ward, i. sorby, etc).
I had mostly premium tools when I started, and those are mostly gone now in favor of good vintage versions (and not for money reasons at all). Some of the good vintage stuff is getting steep, but I'd still rather have it.
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28th September 2021, 10:02 PM #10Senior Member
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28th September 2021, 10:37 PM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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I got a Veritas plough plane for my 40th, don’t use it a lot but I smile when I do. Would have got a Veritas router plane had I not already had a Stanley, so useful. With chisels you can get them one by one over time as needed, for me it would be hard to justify (or hide as the case may be !) picking up a $400 plane + extra blades outside of special occasion.
The Veritas low angle really is a corker of a plane too. The blade swapping thing is over-stated in my opinion, it’s more of a bonus than a reason to purchase.You boys like Mexico ?
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29th September 2021, 09:27 AM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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I picked up a secondhand one of these a while ago, and is one of my favourite planes to use.
I find a reason to put a chamfer on nearly everything .
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29th September 2021, 09:49 AM #13
Hahaha - yes - brings to mind that old saying
".....when all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail....."
Here you go:
20210923_144336.jpg.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
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29th September 2021, 10:21 AM #14GOLD MEMBER
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Good friend is a manufacturing jeweler. I like to use stones, metals and shell inlay in my wood carvings.
She uses a Knew Concepts fret saw, the one with the rotating blade. I bought one.
They really are as precise as everybody claims.
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30th September 2021, 01:21 AM #15
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